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|By Liz Owens
Nearly 2,000 patients have died from the virus in Georgia, and more than 800 have in South Carolina. Our I-TEAM analyzed the most recent data released by the state of South Carolina.
Updated: Aug. 13, 2020 at 5:47 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
The results are in after our I-Team put several at-home coronavirus tests to the test. In all, our Meredith Anderson took five different tests.
Updated: Aug. 10, 2020 at 6:20 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
An all-new I-Team investigation is putting at-home coronavirus tests to the test.
Updated: Aug. 6, 2020 at 6:02 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
While some parents chose online learning for their children this school year, other parents are left with no choice but to allow their children to learn at least part-time from home.
Updated: Aug. 3, 2020 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Now that the first day is in the books for the first batch of students in our area, we're doing some homework tonight.
Updated: Jul. 30, 2020 at 6:14 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Families remain cut off from loved ones in nursing homes as COVID-19 continues to ravage long term facilities. Pre-pandemic, families relied on the ombudsman to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect, but even they are now cut off from nursing home residents.
Updated: Jul. 28, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Recreation league sports leagues are starting to gear up for the season, but how safe will it be to play?
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 7:09 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
A mother and her boyfriend sit in jail charged with the murder of a 12-year-old boy. Warrants accuse Jasmine Camp and Clarence Brown of punishing the child to death while other children in the home listened.
Updated: Jul. 27, 2020 at 4:16 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Georgia’s top leaders say backlogs in processing COVID tests makes it nearly impossible to conduct contact tracing. But the backlog is also putting families in limbo as they wait days or even weeks in quarantine for their results.
Updated: Jul. 24, 2020 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Parents, we know a lot of you are still struggling with the school decision: should I send my kids or keep them home?
7-Day Planner
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 7:15 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
With so many of us thinking ahead to the fall and what it means for back to school and back to any semblance of a normal life, an expanded warning from the FDA is grabbing our attention.
Updated: Jul. 23, 2020 at 3:59 PM EDT
|By Laura Warren
We're continuing to expose a troubling trend for the potential of rising cases of CTE -- not in football players, but in the US military from repeated traumatic brain injuries while in combat.
Updated: Jul. 22, 2020 at 5:20 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The I-Team continues to dig deeper into dispatch problems at Aiken County 911. Our ongoing investigation this month has uncovered massive turnover at the department and a lack of medical training for dispatchers compared to other local counties.
Updated: Jul. 21, 2020 at 4:37 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Paul Tarashuk would have celebrated his 28th birthday this month, but instead, his parents are pushing the federal government to hold Orangeburg County EMS and the sheriff’s office accountable for possible violations of the Americans with Disabilities act.
Updated: Jul. 20, 2020 at 8:34 PM EDT
|By Laura Warren
Our military fighting for our country overseas come home to face a different kind of battle. We’ve heard the letters ‘CTE’ in sports but our troops are facing it as well.
Updated: Jul. 17, 2020 at 5:05 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Hospital beds are filling up and visitation restrictions are back in place across the CSRA as thousands of state residents battle COVID-19.
Updated: Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:31 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
An all-new I-Team investigation reveals allegations of inhumane treatment of animals, workers injured on the job, and contaminated meat all at one Augusta business.
Updated: Jul. 13, 2020 at 6:47 PM EDT
|By Ciara Cummings
Years of problems and pollution at the Richmond County landfill have caused concern for neighbors and will cost the city millions. The issues link to broken pipes, broken systems, and allegations of mismanagement.
Updated: Jul. 10, 2020 at 1:30 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Earlier this week, we showed you how mistakes inside Aiken 911 dispatch center is costing critical minutes to save lives. You heard from devastated families and Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt himself.
Updated: Jul. 9, 2020 at 5:04 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Every minute matters when saving a life.
Updated: Jul. 6, 2020 at 5:45 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
An all-new I-Team investigation begins with a heart attack -- a mother collapses on the floor. Her family, knowing seconds count, begins CPR and dials Aiken County 911.
Updated: Jul. 3, 2020 at 5:04 PM EDT
Increasing COVID-19 concerns left cities on both sides of the river canceling their annual Fourth of July celebrations this weekend.
Updated: Jul. 2, 2020 at 4:14 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Could civil unrest coupled with coronavirus constraints lead to another crisis -- a thinner police force on our streets?
Updated: Jul. 1, 2020 at 2:37 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Georgia lawmakers are taking action after the staggering death toll from coronavirus is happening in one place: nursing homes
Updated: Jun. 29, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Questions are emerging about what happened to more than 700 birds seized in an illegal cockfighting bust, one that the U.S. Attorney’s office broke up in Emanuel County more than a week ago.
Updated: Jun. 26, 2020 at 5:51 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The IRS sent stimulus checks families across the country during the beginning of the pandemic to help get through the financial hardships it brought.
Updated: Jun. 24, 2020 at 9:22 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
New information has been uncovered about the death of a 12-year-old boy, information that Division of Family and Children Services could have intervened and opened a case earlier.
Updated: Jun. 22, 2020 at 6:10 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
It was a crime that terrified the community. Two years later, the crime remains unsolved and the victim is acting against Augusta University.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 4:52 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Doctors, nurses, medical students, and health experts continue to fight the spread of COVID-19. Now they will likely have to do it with even less money in Georgia. The economic fallout is hitting every aspect of the state budget.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 4:51 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
esearchers at Augusta University Health have made a major breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19. It basically involves cloning blood cells and figuring out a way to make them live forever.
Updated: Jun. 19, 2020 at 5:54 AM EDT
A revised version of Georgia’s state budget for the upcoming year would cut $2.6 billion in state money after Gov. Brian Kemp told lawmakers to reduce spending by 11%.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 6:09 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Researchers say they've made a breakthrough when it comes to treating coronavirus. But doctors at AU have already been using it for weeks now.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Something you have in your medicine cabinet could help stop the spread of coronavirus, and it’s not a pill.
Updated: Jun. 18, 2020 at 3:25 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Cuts to critical services for children and the elderly in Georgia may not be as steep as first feared.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 at 4:21 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Nursing homes continue to be the hardest hit sector of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, the economic crisis from the virus has Georgia lawmakers slicing and dicing state funds, including critical nursing home resources.
Updated: Jun. 16, 2020 at 4:27 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
We've all heard of scams where you pay for something, it never arrives. This one appears to be the opposite.
Updated: Jun. 15, 2020 at 4:39 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The shutdown and economic fallout from COVID-19 has led to sweeping budget cuts of services, services to help with addiction included. And experts say they are needed - more than ever.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2020 at 2:36 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
As the two-state pushes forward with re-opening, families are still prohibited from visiting their loved ones in nursing homes under the new executive order in Georgia.
Updated: Jun. 12, 2020 at 2:25 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
The remdesivir clock is ticking. The federal government will reportedly send its last shipment of the anti-viral drug that's being used to treat COVID-19 on June 29.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2020 at 6:08 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
South Carolina's special task force laying out recommendations Thursday for how to re-open school in the fall.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2020 at 4:00 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
The CDC issued guidelines to the states for reopening nursing homes last month, but facilities in South Carolina will remain closed to visitors indefinitely.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 7:52 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
It's supposed to help grocery stores keep food on the shelves during the pandemic, but our I-TEAM is exposing some potential problems with the new government rule.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2020 at 4:41 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
A case of child abuse that left an Augusta 12-year-old dead highlights the need for child and family support services, before tragedies like this can hit but the pandemic is bringing drastic cuts to those very programs aimed to save children.
Updated: Jun. 9, 2020 at 4:38 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
The World Health Organization is back-tracking after what appears to be some misinformation, and it's caused a lot of confusion about the coronavirus.
Updated: Jun. 8, 2020 at 2:37 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what has lead to the spike of COVID-19 cases in South Carolina and Georgia but what we know the states have increased cases and has relaxed stay at home orders.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2020 at 5:48 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Bodycam video showing the horrific killing of George Floyd continues to spark outrage and protests across the country. Images of police killings are also traumatizing children.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2020 at 5:26 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
The financial health of our local hospitals is a bit complex. On top of buying extra supplies and extra labor costs, they lost their main source of revenue and the federal government had to step in.
Updated: Jun. 3, 2020 at 4:41 PM EDT
|By Meredith Anderson
Even before large groups started to gather for protests, experts warned of a possible second wave of coronavirus. But this time, both Georgia and South Carolina will be better prepared with contact tracers.
Updated: Jun. 2, 2020 at 4:59 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Concerns over the spread of coronavirus rise after three days of protests in the river region. The message of keeping distance overtaken by a message of social injustice. Our I-TEAM investigates what protestors should do now to stay safe.
Updated: Jun. 1, 2020 at 4:38 PM EDT
|By Liz Owens
Data shows COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in Georgia after initially decreasing in mid-May. Health experts are concerned about the large gatherings and protests right now could lead to an even bigger spike of the virus.